Elon Musk $44 Billion Twitter deal

Would you have gone back after they fired you ?

I suppose if the offer was good enough, most people would - it seems a bit odd though, you would have expected their access to have been killed when they left, so how would bringing them back help ...

Has anyone here set themselves up on one of the Mastodon servers? An increasingly large number of people are doing so, especially judging by the fact that it’s almost impossible to access mastodonapp.uk at all this afternoon, and the original, mastodon.social, is extremely slow, albeit actually working.

I’m on mastodon.scot, which has a fairly niche appeal so hasn’t been hit hard today and is working fine. But I have a sneaky backup account set up on mastodonapp.uk as I’m not sure how viable any of the smaller services are likely to be in the long run as they’ll be harder pressed to attract the advertising or the volunteer moderator support that will inevitably be needed if Mastodon really takes off. If Mastodon.scot looks to be in danger of shutting down, at that point I can download/import into mastodonapp.uk which I suspect will have greater longevity, once it sorts out its immediate resource requirements.

Havent bothered with twatter for years, so not really concerned about joining a rival.

I wonder how well it will cope given how its funded and the need to upgrade its servers.

Mastodon is crowdfunded and does not contain ads. Since 2021, it has been registered as not for profit ("gemeinnützige GmbH"). As of November 2022, it was supported by 3500 people.

Originally Posted by Paul

Havent bothered with twatter for years, so not really concerned about joining a rival.

I wonder how well it will cope given how its funded and the need to upgrade its servers.

Well, it is decentralised so not all users are ever going to be a member of the original Mastodon.social server. What’s supposed to happen is you sign up on a server in your part of the world or which reflects your interests (Mastodonapp.uk is a popular one here; I’m on Mastodon.scot). Obviously each of these is still volunteer run, but each individual community presumably has a much more modest server load and only needs to be moderated locally.

Even though you join one Mastodon server you can chose to follow users from any other server and you can still search across the entire network for hashtags etc. The caveat to that is that each local Mastodon server has to know about all the others. All the main ones should interconnect easily enough but there’s no guarantee of universal cross-connectivity, especially if the admin on the server you’re a member of, takes exception to something about the way another one is run.

What all of this means for the costs and the time commitment of running a Mastodon server remains to be seen. The data you’ve found is for the non-profit organisation in Germany that develops the software and runs the original Mastodon.social server. It’s not currently possible to sign up for an account on Mastodon.social, though as described, it’s not necessary to be a member of that one directly.

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Paul

Would you have gone back after they fired you ?

I suppose if the offer was good enough, most people would.

Correct, I would go back under renewed terms, no problem.

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Originally Posted by Paul

Havent bothered with twatter for years, so not really concerned about joining a rival.

I wonder how well it will cope given how its funded and the need to upgrade its servers.

Twitter will prevail as there is no alternative, I mean there are alternatives, but none that Twitter uses will use.

Originally Posted by Paul

Would you have gone back after they fired you ?

I suppose if the offer was good enough, most people would - it seems a bit odd though, you would have expected their access to have been killed when they left, so how would bringing them back help ...

Nope -

Not after some of the firing/hiring managers’ comments on the Twitter internal Slack, where they said they were only taking some back to get over the current issues, then were going to bin them again…

https://www.businessinsider.com/twit...2-11?r=US&IR=T

BREAKING: Elon Musk just tweeted that Former U.S President Donald Trump will have his Twitter account reinstated after a poll in which a total of over 15 Million voted and 52% of those who voted, vote yes to bring him back.

There goes Truth Social…

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Mick

BREAKING: Elon Musk just tweeted that Former U.S President Donald Trump will have his Twitter account reinstated after a poll in which a total of over 15 Million voted and 52% of those who voted, vote yes to bring him back.

He's not coming back, prefers truth social and says twitter has problems ahead, musk lost dozens of major advertisers and thousands of accounts for nothing, imagine how badly you're running a business for a guy who bankrupted two casinos to comment

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

He's not coming back, prefers truth social and says twitter has problems ahead, musk lost dozens of major advertisers and thousands of accounts for nothing, imagine how badly you're running a business for a guy who bankrupted two casinos to comment

It was 6 actually.

He’s got a huge following on Twitter, he’d be mad to ignore a large user base, more than he’ll ever have on his own Truth social site.

Musk isn’t bothered about losing Advertisers, says direction of Twitter should not be controlled by commercial interests or Wall Street, why he’s implemented a subscription service, that is due to be reactivated on 29th November, this after they’ve ironed out the ability to spoof a popular or branded account.

Jack Dorsey, one of the founders and prior CEO’s, regretted Twitter being stuck with just advertisers revenue keeping the site going.

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

He's not coming back, prefers truth social and says twitter has problems ahead, musk lost dozens of major advertisers and thousands of accounts for nothing, imagine how badly you're running a business for a guy who bankrupted two casinos to comment

Trump could decide to close his Twiitter account himself but he's currently left it live without any new Tweets.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Trump could decide to close his Twiitter account himself but he's currently left it live without any new Tweets.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

If Trump isn’t interested, then why did he urge people to vote on the poll on his TS site?

His Narcissistic tones, will get the better of him and he’ll return for the attention, I think.

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Mick

If Trump isn’t interested, then why did he urge people to vote on the poll on his TS site?

His Narcissistic tones, will get the better of him and he’ll return for the attention, I think.

Wonder if he has any contractual obligations to truth social preventing him tweeting...

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Wonder if he has any contractual obligations to truth social preventing him tweeting...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/madelin...h=f4ac2e365ca0

As a part of the Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) “Social Media Exclusivity Term,” Trump has agreed to wait six hours before posting the same content from Truth Social on any other sites, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

The former president is allowed, however, to make posts from his personal account related to “political messaging, political fundraising or get-out-the vote efforts” at “any time” on any social media site.